The Hawkeye™ Family of Flyaway VSAT Terminals

The Hawkeye family of flyaway VSAT terminals have long been a
staple of the U.S. Army's technology arsenal. These
quick-deploy, auto-acquire terminals have literally kept soldiers
out of harm's way on the battlefield. In 2003 during
Operation Iraqi Freedom, troops advanced so quickly that their
requisitions fell behind and logistics and maintenance transactions
slumped to nearly zero, leaving troops without supplies. The
solution for the U.S. Army was CSS VSAT, also known as the Hawkeye
II 1.2M terminal. The CSS-Satcom program launched in 2003 and
to date L3 GCS has shipped over 4000 systems to the U.S. Army and
continues to support this customer with a condition-based
refurbishment program as well as modem upgrades.

These systems provide direct support to soldiers on the
battlefield and has allowed them to make significant advances over
the "sneakernet", which in the past, required soldiers to drive
through harm's way in convoys, to deliver requisitions.